TIME STAMP v1.1

Written by James L. Wright
Copyright (c) 1994 - all rights reserved


TIME STAMP is FREEWARE.


I wrote this little utility in response to a situation at my wife's 
place of business. They suspected that a certain employee was coming 
in after hours and attempting to alter accounting data. The accounting
files were password protected but they wanted to prove that the 
computers were being turned on after hours. So I wrote TIME STAMP and 
included it in the autoexec.bat file. Sure enough, a week later the 
Time Stamp log showed that the computer had been activated late at night. 

TIME STAMP consists of a single executable file. It is designed to run 
from a batch file, but can easily be run from the command line. When 
executed, TIME STAMP writes the current time and date to the specified 
log file. Additionally, TIME STAMP has a stealth mode, it can be run 
with all screens suppressed and it's log file is given the DOS hidden 
attribute. 

TIME STAMP's log file is in standard ASCII format and can be viewed 
with any ASCII file viewer, such as DOS's EDITOR, Windows NOTEPAD, or 
the DOS TYPE command.

Command line syntax:

	TIMESTMP [filename] [/?] [/H] [/S]

	*note parameters in [] are optional.

	filename	This is the DOS file name of the text file you 
			want the timestamp appended to. The filename may 
			includ drive and path specifications. If you 
			don't include a	filename then TIME STAMP appends 
			the timestamp to a file named STAMP.TXT in the
			current drive/directory. If the file you have
			specified does not exist, then TIME STAMP will
			create it.

	/? or /H	Help. Gives you the TIME STAMP help screen.

	/S		Stealth mode. Causes TIME STAMP to execute with 
			all screen messages suppressed,	and the log file 
			is given the DOS hidden attribute. If you use 
			TIME STAMP in stealth mode to append a timestamp 
			to a log file that is currently not hidden, TIME 
			STAMP will hide it. Conversely, if you use TIME 
			STAMP in normal mode to append a timestamp to a 
			file that is hidden, TIME STAMP will unhide it.

I hope this utility comes in useful. I use it to keep track of how often 
I boot up the system, for end of the year tax purposes. 

As always questions or comments are welcome, You can E-mail me at: 

			James Wright, CIS ID 70373,1750
 